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MORRISBURG (Staff) — The province’s Special Investigations Unit invoked its mandate to investigate an OPP shooting death in Morrisburg on the weekend.

The shooting occurred on Saturday, and a Postmedia report out of Ottawa on Sunday said the SIU did not immediately provide details of the incident, however it did identify the man killed as Babak Saidi, 43, of Iroquois.

The investigative agency said one subject officer and 10 witness officers have been identified and will be interviewed as part of the investigation. A post-mortem is scheduled to happen in Ottawa on Wednesday.

CBC News on Saturday afternoon reported that Saidi had schizophrenia, and that he was required to check in weekly at the Morrisburg OPP detachment after his 2014 conviction for assault and battery, according to his sister Elly Saidi.

“My brother, he was the kindest, sweetest, most loving person,’’ Elly Saidi told CBC News. “He had a mental disability, and we need to know how to deal with a person with mental disability.’’

Elly Saidi said her brother had been visiting the detachment without any incident until this weekend, when everything went horribly wrong.

Elly Saidi said that Babak was picked up for the trip to Morrisburg by his father and a friend, at his farm near Cardinal. Recounting her father’s version of events, Elly Saidi said that when they arrived at the police station in Morrisburg, they were told to wait about 15 minutes. They went to do some grocery shopping and when they came back, Babak Saidi got out of the car to go inside.

Elly Saidi told the CBC that the next thing her father saw was Babak on the ground, with two officers on top of him.

She said Babak was taken into the detachment, and within a couple of minutes her father heard two shots ring out.

Elly Saidi said that a police officer told her father and his friend to go and wait at a nearby Tim Hortons, and that someone would come by to explain what happened.

“They waited for a few hours, and then the police came,’’ she said. “My dad asked the police, ‘Where is my son?’ And the police officer told my dad that, sorry, your son is gone.’’

The Ontario Special Investigations Unit in a mid-afternoon tweet on Saturday said it was investigating a police-involved fatal shooting at the Morrisburg SDG OPP detachment.

About an hour later the OPP’s corporate communications office released a statement at 4:14 p.m. indicating that an OPP officer was involved in an altercation with an adult male outside the OPP detachment shortly after 11 a.m. on Saturday.

The news release said that preliminary information indicated a man entered the OPP detachment at 6 Fifth Street W. at about noon.

“There was an interaction between the man and officers and one of the officers discharged a firearm,’’ the SIU release stated. “The man was struck. He was pronounced dead at the scene.’’

The agency dispatched four investigators and three forensic investigators to the incident.

The SIU asked that anyone with information contact the lead investigator at 1-800-787-8529. Anyone with video is asked to upload it on the SIU website.

The OPP statement on Saturday said the adult male sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, and that the officer involved was being treated for undetermined injuries.